Farmer suicides on the rise in Adilabad district

  Rythu leaders collecting information about deceased  farmer 

The farmers who lost their standing crops and did not get remunerative prices to their crops are committing suicides. Farmer suicides are the rise in the last two months with changed weather conditions.

They say there is no use giving uninterrupted power supply for nine hours to agriculture when the area of cultivation has reduced to minimal in Rabi.

According to sources, eight farmers committed suicide in January, 10 in February and five farmers in March.

Most of the farmers are in a deep depression with the successive drought conditions and its impact on their life.

Rythu Athma Hatyala Nivarana committee district convenor Sangepu Borranna said farmers’ suicides may rise further before the June as weather conditions seem unfavorable.

Farmers are under pressure from various corners including private moneylenders, bankers, and drought: he said and added that there was a huge delay in payments to farmers for red gram purchased by Markfed.   

Young farmer Bahune Srinivas, 27, unmarried, committed suicide by hanging himself in his Agriculture field in Sundaragiri village in Jainad mandal on March 30. He had taken up agriculture in their six- acre land after his father died last year.

There are severe allegations that the banks are not extending required amount of finances to the small and marginal farmers whereas influential big farmers are getting larger funding.

More over the institutional support regarding loaning is very much needed to purchase seeds,  agriculture operations from April month itself but most of the banks start loan disbursement in the middle of the May or even in June. Meantime, farmers approach intermediaries and take loans at exorbitant interests.